Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

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On 05/15/2013 02:48 PM, Joe Touch wrote:


On 5/15/2013 11:08 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
I don't think this is a topic that the IETF as a whole is likely to
find very interesting. However, if anyone is curious, they are welcome
to read the DISCUSS here and see if they agree with your
characterization of my question:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options/ballot/

For those who may be interested, the last sentence of the first
paragraph is the motivation for this being a DISCUSS position (as
opposed to a comment).

Which is "I think that using a 4-byte ExID runs a real risk of
overflowing the available space in the TCP header in real-world circumstances."

Except that the document already describes the ExID as either 16-bit or 32-bit:

   >> All ExIDs MUST be either 16-bits or 32-bits long.

Motivation for the additional two bytes is already explained in the document in several places, notably:

   The second two bytes serve as a "magic number".
...
   Using the additional magic number bytes helps the option contents
   have the same byte alignment in the TCP header as they would have if
   (or when) a conventional (non-experiment) TCP option codepoint is
   assigned. Use of the same alignment reduces the potential for
   implementation errors, especially in using the same word-alignment
   padding, if the same software is later modified to use a
   conventional codepoint. Use of the longer, 32-bit ExID further
   decreases the probability of such a false positive compared to those
   using shorter, 16-bit ExIDs.
...
   Use of the longer, 32-bit ExID consumes more
   space, but provides more protection against false positives.

Which is why I feel this motivation isn't sufficient for a DISCUSS.

It certainly seems like a valid topic for an AD to want to discuss with a WG. And that's all that DISCUSS inherently means.

Keith






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